The Observer, Wednesday 1 June 1977.La Grande, OregonOBITUARIESWAYNE ROBERT ALLENWayne Robert Allen, 55, a former resident of La Grande, died Sunday at the Veterans Hospital in Portland. He was born July 13, 1921, at Enumclaw, Wash. He lived most of his life in La Grande, and resided in Newport, Ore. The last three years. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors include two sons, Wesley and Warren, La Grande; four daughters, Connie Page, La Grande, Waynette Ritchey, Summerville, Carol Walker, Baker, and Angela Page, Newport; one brother, Lawrence Mardis, Payette, Idaho; four sisters, Dorothy Shafer, Newport, May Palmer, North Powder, Myrtle Haggey, North Powder, and Ellen Goss, Pendleton; and eight grandchildren. Services will be held 2 p.m. Friday at Coffey's Funeral Chapel. Concluding services will follow at the Island City Cemetery.